Bailey, Buness C.

Passed: 1940-10-23

Age: 32

Source: Mountaineer

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1940-10-24

Information: DIES WHILE DRIVING - ONE INJURED AS CAR GOES DRIVERLESS - CAR STRIKES BUILDING ON NORTH STEPS -  One of the very strange and unusual tradgies of life happened Wednesday evening about five o'clock when B. C. Bailey, a young man only 32 years old, died at the wheel of his automobile, wrecking the car and injuring his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brownie Bailey.  Mr. Bailey had stopped his car at the Model Grocery in Ripley and let Brownie Bailey, his father-in-law, out of the car and just as he, B. C. Bailey the driver, started the car to park it across the street, his head fell back. Mrs. Bailey, who was riding in the back seat jumped up and reached for the wheel shoving him forward.  For some reason possibly the stiffening of his leg caused him to bear down on the accelerator, increasing the speed of the car.  The car crossed the street and ran over the curb and across the court house lawn for about one hundred and fifty feet, running into the side of the court house.  The impact of the car caused Mrs. Bailey, who was leaning over the front seat, to strike the windshield and cutting one half of her nose until it laid down on her upper lip and mouth, also injuring her shoulder and a rib.  Several people saw the accident and rushed to the car.  Mrs. Bailey was taken from the car and hurried to the Starcher Hospital, where her nose was sowed back in place and it is thought that her face will not be disfigured.      When the young man was taken from the car, he was limp and all crump down in the car.  Dr. Camden Starcher was on the scene in a very few minutes and pronounced that Mr. Bailey died of heart trouble and that his heart didn't act after he was first affected.  B. C. Bailey lived in the home of Brownie Bailey.  They had gone to Roscoe Flinn's, near Ravenswood, where Brownie Bailey was dealing for some cattle and they were on their way home when they stopped at Ripley to get a sack of feed.  B. C. Bailey, the man who died, never had heart trouble before and was in his usual good health.  He had sowed wheat that morning, working hard. It is said by the Medical profession that Pulmonary heart trouble is fatal near one half of the time in its first attack.  Dr. Starcher thinks he was stricken with Pulmonary heart trouble which is a clot in the Plumonary artery at the entrance of the heart.  Mr. Bailey is survived by his wife and one child. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bailey.  The Vail Mortuary has charge of the body.